Monthly Archive: May 2016

“She was my present, my future, my hope. She was the best thing that ever happened to me … [now] there is no life. My life went away when Banaz died” The tragic suicide of 38-year-old Rahmat Sulemani, partner of ‘honour’ killing victim Banaz Mahmod, is a devastating loss for...

This is the full-length version of an article published by the New Statesman on 13 May 2016. Recently published figures on forced marriage confirm that the crime is vastly under-reported and that only a fraction of investigations result in prosecution. This comes as no surprise to me, and we can...

The murder of Asad Shah in March this year brought simmering tensions within Muslim communities sharply into focus. Muslim rights group MPAC UK were quick to cry ‘Islamophobia’ when news first broke that Mr Shah, a popular shopkeeper from the Shawlands area of Glasgow, had been stabbed to death. Their...